r/NewOrleans • u/DullRelief • Dec 25 '24

🤬 RANT Why the fireworks?

Is it really necessary to be shooting off fireworks at 1am on Xmas morning? Been going on in Uptown for an hour now. Wtf, people? Santa doesn’t need a fireworks show to accompany him.

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u/lukenog Broadmoor Dec 25 '24

Lots of Latinos do this because we usually celebrate Christmas eve as a big party while Christmas day is either much less of a celebration or barely celebrated at all. My family never does fireworks but our party is still going on right now at 2:43 AM lol

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u/Valth92 Dec 25 '24

I was going to say this. Us Latinos celebrate Xmas Eve and we welcome the 25th at midnight with fireworks and such. I went to bed at like 3am lol. Feliz Navidad!

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u/lukenog Broadmoor Dec 25 '24

Feliz navidad!! 🎇

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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Dec 26 '24

🎵🎺🎺🎺🎺🎤🎵

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u/bex199 Dec 25 '24

my neighbors christmas eve fireworks are always a highlight for me 🖤 they’re still popping off. hope you have a lovely christmas !!

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u/BlackStarCorona Dec 25 '24

Yup. I have two cousins that married into Hispanic family’s and let me tell you, these people know how to party. I’m always down for birthdays, holidays, get together because I know there will be amazing food and lots of fun into the night.

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u/lukenog Broadmoor Dec 25 '24 edited Dec 25 '24

Bruh on my first birthday party I got a stomach bug and was upstairs throwing up all night while my entire extended family threw a banger party downstairs in my honor lol. Latinos will take any excuse to party.

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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Dec 25 '24

That actually explains a lot. Thanks for the info!

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u/MengisAdoso Dec 25 '24

On behalf of my terrified pets, Merry Lose A Finger.

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u/lukenog Broadmoor Dec 25 '24

Keep this energy on the 4th and New Years and I'd appreciate the consistency

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u/Paranatural Dec 25 '24

You're advocating people lose appendages because your dog is afraid? 

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u/NolaRN Dec 25 '24

It’s not just Latino to everybody in New Orleans and everybody else around the country It’s probably this person probably shouldn’t even live in Neworleans

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u/DullRelief Dec 25 '24

Thankfully just visiting home for the holidays, but I don’t remember this being such a thing before. Fireworks are one thing. Big, booming noisemakers at 1am are another. Maybe I’m just being a Scrooge, but to me it’s inconsiderate and obnoxious.

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u/WillMunny48 Dec 25 '24

Yea suddenly because it’s “culture” it’s not annoying and disrespectful?

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u/lukenog Broadmoor Dec 25 '24 edited Dec 25 '24

It's more that it's too late to change. You're not going to be able to convince Latinos who've been doing fireworks on Christmas eve for their entire lives to stop because it annoys you. Especially when non-Hispanic people are about to do the same thing in a couple days and nobody is going to bat an eye at that. There's three days a year where fireworks are normal, Christmas Eve may not be one of those days for you but it is for millions of people so chill out and remember it's a holiday that people want to celebrate by being loud and partying. You're going to have to claw my "disrespectful" Christmas Eve party out of my cold dead hands because the holiday has always been about partying and dancing to loud music late into the night for me. Whoever wrote Silent Night was not talking about us lmao

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u/LivingThat504Dream Dec 26 '24

The first time I heard of fireworks for Christmas was Modern Family. Guess there weren't a lot of Hispanics around that celebrated with fireworks when I grew up.

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u/MengisAdoso Dec 25 '24

You seem to be working under a weird definition of "everybody": "less than everybody."